Its better to create the Character than to be the Character, because the one behind the scenes are the ones that really get full credit

Pain in the wilderness is an investment in pleasure in the Promised Land.

Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself.

How much man likes or hates a person or a thing is dependent on how much he knows or does not know about the person or the thing.

Jesus never spoke of truth in abstraction, as something that stands alone. Jesus always spoke of truth in relation to God being revealed through himself.

I just think it's sad that the main places in our culture that we designate to meet new people are bars and nightclubs.

Poles must understand history but we must also overcome it if it is obstructing our contemporary goals.

History is organized memory, and the organization is all important!

There is no divining-rod whose dip shall tell us at twenty what we shall most relish at thirty.

A bit of advice, don't copy nature too closely. Art is an abstraction; as you dream amid nature, extrapolate art from it, and concentrate on what you will create as a result.

Curiosity is part of the cement that holds society together.